SPECT & PET: Tailoring Heart Failure Therapy
Molecular imaging is beginning to give cardiologists insight into biological processes behind heart failure, knowledge that may allow them to monitor disease progression and tailor therapies. But market realities still pose barriers. {read more here}
Pretreatment PET with F-18 FDG as well as MR imaging provides useful diagnostic data, with PET showing a particular edge for prognosis, according to a study published online March 24 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine . {read more here}
The implementation date of the nationwide conversion to theICD-10 family of diagnostic and procedural codes would be delayed by at least a year under a House Ways and Means Committee bill aimed at providing the annual fix to the physician sustainable-growth rate formula. {read more here}
18F-FDG PET/CT performs better than CT/MRI in depicting occult cervical metastatic nodes in patients with negative neck palpitation findings (stage cN0), according to a study published in the April issue of Radiology. {read more here}